Republicans who go along with these nominations are insane. They are aiding and abetting the destruction of the country. At some point, Republicans will beg Democrats to vote for Trumps next impeachment.
Trump is filling the government with loons, traitors, slackers, fools, blunderers and corrupt plutocrats.
This is his plan: make every pick crazier than the previous pick so we forget the previous crazy pick.
Next up, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert. 🤦
America is screwed!
That's why I will be wearing this "Happy to Be The Enemy Within!" shirt 👇
…so we forget the previous crazy pick and, amidst all the the outrage, overlook the more sinister ones — like Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence. Flooding the zone with shit continues.
These are the perfect people, if your goal is to destroy the government. But health? He want to destroy the health of the people too? But, but, but, if we stop making medicines, there will not be any for him either. Oh, I forgot... he doesn't know how to think anything through.
DJT, and his Flock of Deranged, will always be able to get the Medicines that they will need... Remember how DJT got COVID in 2020 after declaring that it would 'Magically' go away, was AirLifted out, received very restricted Experimental Medicines, and had a Team of over 10-Doctors.... Did DJT try injecting Bleach 1st?... DJT was back within a Week.. All at Tax-Payer Expense.... How many of Us would have those Benefits?
Their platform is about getting Americans away from needing medicines to counteract all the harmful chemicals and poisons in our food supply. You should actually listen to their podcasts and research their views. Nothing radical about their agenda, other than upending the corrupt regimes of Big Food and Big Pharma.
There are aspects of RFK jr views on big ag and big pharma that I agree with. The problem is that his views on various subjects are so far outside of established consensus science that it calls into question his capacity for fair and unbiased judgement of evidence. I do not want to hand over policy on health matters to his judgement. I want a person at the helm who will listen to the experts.
The same "experts" that brough us Covid, the "vax" and shut down our country? The same "experts" that called Hunter Biden's laptop "Russin misinformation". despite the FBI having verified a year prior? The whole point of shaking up the system is because the system is corrupt. So many conflicts of interest, "experts" being paid off to push false narratives to enrich their donors and investors. It's time to pull the curtain back and restore transparency to the system that has destroyed American's health and trust.
You don’t think RFK Jr,’s views are dangerous? Go ask the 80+ dead, mostly under 4, in Semoia. He caused a massive, deadly measles outbreak with his lies. And guess what? He knows he’s lying. It’s all about feeding his narcissistic, oversized ego. PERIOD. He couldn’t care less about pubic health. You need only look at his real record as an environmental lawyer. He found it as a good way to enrich himself, not to help anyone but himself.
RFK had nothing to do with the measles outbreak in Samoa. Not sure where you're getting that from. 2 children were killed by a tainted vaccine which caused vaccine hesitancy among the Samoans.
I am always so unpleasantly surprised by the republicans on how they always find ways to circumvent the rule of law and do as much damage as possible to get more control and power.... remember President Obama attempt to nominate and get appointed a Supreme Court judge and Mitch McConnell holding for almost 2 (two) months the nomination just so they would end up nominate a Supreme Court judge instead!!!
And now ... nominating appointees WITHOUT due process????
WTF ... Why didn't Democrats though of something like this??? They are always playing by the rules only to get knocked down and swept over their feet by the "unorthodox methods" that republicans use ...
I think it might be the time that Dems snap out of this " hypnosis" that republicans put us all under !!
Have you actually listened to RFK JR and Cally and Casey Means? You should listen to their podcasts and research their views and issues. They talk about all the chemicals and poisons that have been added to our foods to make them more addictive. That's just a small piece. The platform is about getting Americans healthy again. How is that bad?
You don't give the CF enough credit... he hires the guy who says he wants to shut down big pharma... wipes his hands, "Whew, that's done. Another fire lit, burning health down. I'm such a genius."
Heather, I share your concerns, however, becoming fearful will not solve our problems. We must start having more direct, in-person dialogue with folks we encounter and ask key questions: Why do you think a situation is so? What do you wish to see happen? How is this impacting your life? Dialogue can actually lead to friendship and consensus! We must never think we have a monoply on truth. Don't let today's events control your emotions. Take care--life is brief!
I love it Heather. We can't sit back and fear. We must turn fear into taking back our power. I know many people out there who side with us. You go girl!!!!!
Call or write your senators, especially if they are red. We all here agree with you that his nominations are FUBAR. Let them know that these nominations are not okay.
"If you see something, say something. I see something.
As i write this, Nov 15th, every Trump nominee is highly unqualified and a danger to carrying out the responsibiliites of the position for which they are nominted.
Only you and your fellow Republicans can stop this madness by rejecting the nominees confirmation."
Republicans WILL go along with these nominations. It is useless trying to find anyone sane in their party anymore. Enemy within t-shirts will not be enough to stop the madness. Get ready to MAKE good trouble.
Yes we are screwed for sure. Time to either go to Canada or do away with myself. There will be no presidential election in 4 years. He Will do away with anything to do with environmental protection or worker protections. Next unions will be eliminated. Vacinations will be eliminated entirely by crackpot wacko RFK junior. All forms of government sponsored healthcare will be eliminated and social security will be attacked and destroyed. It will be eliminated for those already on it and many of those already retired will be left destitute. MAGA wackos will cackle and scream for the persecution and prosecution of Democrats who are ALL communists according to Trump confidant Elon Musk. There is no going back. We are truly finished. The US will turn into a 4th rate banana republic and we will be the laughing stock of the remaining free world. The end!!
"Republicans who go along with these nominations are insane." Well thanks to Free Speech, you can say this but that doesn't make it true. The sentence is only nine words cast into a soup of quadrillions. Hope my old shirt fits.
This is part of a war against government, that began with that demented horse's ass Ronald Reagan. If government screws up, then any government must be bad, right? It's a pattern.
Why are Republicans so opposed to government? Simple, government collects taxes. Why did Adam Smith (in case you don't remember, he was the inventor of capitalism) so in favor of taxes? Because taxes would prevent people like Elon Musk from becoming so powerful that they would buy the government and distort the market.
Welcome to the new world of Socialism for the Rich, for what else is not paying your taxes than government welfare for the Rich?
I don't remember Ronnie being this awful or dumb!!! Yes, tax the super wealth at the same % I pay. In fact everyone should pay the same % to be fair, and equal.
Allow me to assist: Reagan is “the government IS the problem” guy. He’s the guy who set the wheels in motion to create the plutocracy that we live in now and laid the groundwork for Trump’s plan to destroy the administrative state. Does that help a little?
I agree, Reagan also deregulated corporations which started their exodus to China and tens of thousands of our factories closed. Reagan also led to the Bush dynasty which led to Iraq.... it goes on and on and here we are.
And yet people have put Reagan on a pedestal it seems. Besides the Iran-Contra affair, he was responsible for keeping the hostages imprisoned until AFTER he was elected president to ensure Carter, who actually engineered their release, would not get credit so HE could win the election. He really wasn’t that nice, was he?
On that hostages' issue, a Team (kinda Seal Six) was sent to Tehran to free the hostages. A bit risky, but at the times, the place was run by the students. The helicopters they used "crashed" in the desert "due to the sand." Imagine that mission being successful. We might have no Reagan. My take is that they self-sabotaged.
Reagan is what happens when 1/3 of the population shifts their vote from Blue to Red, in racist protest after Civil Rights. When the dust settles in 2028, when we reach the terminus of all that Southern rage, we may want to rethink the Constitution.
Penny, the flat tax is just bullshit. People need to pay a progressive tax. The more you make, the higher the PERCENTAGE tax you pay. Otherwise, everyone would pay what the poorest pay, i.e., 5-10%, and the country would collapse. But don't take my word for it, read Adam Smith and Thomas Piketty (you can skip Karl Marx).
My sister lived in Santa Barbara and they would go to his ranch. Took the whole police force to get them in place. Also I thought he was sick alot and Nancy was making his decisions. At least that was expressed by some.
Definitely- there was a famous clip on the news where they turned the mic volume up and you could hear Nancy feeding him his lines one at a time. Reagan was in the pockets of the banks from the start (just ask Michael Moore). But his dementia became a massive issue and he tried to cover it up with his good ol’ boy schtick.
No, to be fair taxes should harm less those with fewer assets. If a person making $20/hour is taxed at 50%, it will harm their ability to support a family. That same 50% tax rate for a person making ten million per year looks unfair on the surface, but having $five million left over to cover family expenses is a lot better than having $20k left over.
If you look at the top photo in my latest Creatures and Characters post, you will see that it's appropriate. (This is not a plug for my Substack. I have 19 followers and will probably never have many more than that.)
And they DO, but mostly in the past, they wanted to make sure they could loot the economy, not crash and burn the whole thing. These bozos are just NUTS. Not even in the same league …
A pessismistic view is that these nominations reflect the desires of a cruel sadistic man who wishes to hurt as many people as he can. To divide and play the nation's people against one another.
A more optimistic view is these choices reflect an utterly clueless and perhaps dementia addled man when it comes to understanding the qualifications needed for these positions.
Regardless, the impacts are likely to be much the same.
WTF is it with the Re-thug-licans? What kind of mental aberration drives them to want to lord it over our welfare and do us harm? Is malignant narcistic behavior part of their vetting process? I believe everyone subscribing to their madness needs to be assessed and placed under rigorous therapy.
I will bet you some people are already experiencing buyers remorse by voting for Trump. I know of one who is taken aback by the nominations who voted for crooked Donald.
In the long-standing, Republican tradition of putting people that will do the most damage in charge, we should not be surprised.
Republicans who go along with these nominations are insane. They are aiding and abetting the destruction of the country. At some point, Republicans will beg Democrats to vote for Trumps next impeachment.
Trump is filling the government with loons, traitors, slackers, fools, blunderers and corrupt plutocrats.
This is his plan: make every pick crazier than the previous pick so we forget the previous crazy pick.
Next up, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert. 🤦
America is screwed!
That's why I will be wearing this "Happy to Be The Enemy Within!" shirt 👇
libtees-2.creator-spring.com/listing/enwith
Now more than ever!
…so we forget the previous crazy pick and, amidst all the the outrage, overlook the more sinister ones — like Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence. Flooding the zone with shit continues.
don't forget steven miller. another dangerous one.
how's about marjtraitorgreen for education secretary?
bobert for transportation?
when is gym jordan gonna get something? locker room attendant in the white house gym?
Or Hulk Hogun for secretary of labor.
now you're talking !
And, of course, it’s only “free” for a limited time. Hucksters like Huckabee.
Will they dig up Louis Gohmert? And how about Paul Gosar? Rand Paul has already proven he'd make the perfect ambassador to Russia for Trump.
oooh i forgot about those two. i assume they were re-elected? there must be some undersecretary openings somewhere
"Sinister" is a word I have used for her, too, as well as "sly" & "inscrutable". "Unscrupulous"?
These are the perfect people, if your goal is to destroy the government. But health? He want to destroy the health of the people too? But, but, but, if we stop making medicines, there will not be any for him either. Oh, I forgot... he doesn't know how to think anything through.
DJT, and his Flock of Deranged, will always be able to get the Medicines that they will need... Remember how DJT got COVID in 2020 after declaring that it would 'Magically' go away, was AirLifted out, received very restricted Experimental Medicines, and had a Team of over 10-Doctors.... Did DJT try injecting Bleach 1st?... DJT was back within a Week.. All at Tax-Payer Expense.... How many of Us would have those Benefits?
Their platform is about getting Americans away from needing medicines to counteract all the harmful chemicals and poisons in our food supply. You should actually listen to their podcasts and research their views. Nothing radical about their agenda, other than upending the corrupt regimes of Big Food and Big Pharma.
There are aspects of RFK jr views on big ag and big pharma that I agree with. The problem is that his views on various subjects are so far outside of established consensus science that it calls into question his capacity for fair and unbiased judgement of evidence. I do not want to hand over policy on health matters to his judgement. I want a person at the helm who will listen to the experts.
The same "experts" that brough us Covid, the "vax" and shut down our country? The same "experts" that called Hunter Biden's laptop "Russin misinformation". despite the FBI having verified a year prior? The whole point of shaking up the system is because the system is corrupt. So many conflicts of interest, "experts" being paid off to push false narratives to enrich their donors and investors. It's time to pull the curtain back and restore transparency to the system that has destroyed American's health and trust.
You don’t think RFK Jr,’s views are dangerous? Go ask the 80+ dead, mostly under 4, in Semoia. He caused a massive, deadly measles outbreak with his lies. And guess what? He knows he’s lying. It’s all about feeding his narcissistic, oversized ego. PERIOD. He couldn’t care less about pubic health. You need only look at his real record as an environmental lawyer. He found it as a good way to enrich himself, not to help anyone but himself.
RFK had nothing to do with the measles outbreak in Samoa. Not sure where you're getting that from. 2 children were killed by a tainted vaccine which caused vaccine hesitancy among the Samoans.
Putin’s puppet.
I am always so unpleasantly surprised by the republicans on how they always find ways to circumvent the rule of law and do as much damage as possible to get more control and power.... remember President Obama attempt to nominate and get appointed a Supreme Court judge and Mitch McConnell holding for almost 2 (two) months the nomination just so they would end up nominate a Supreme Court judge instead!!!
And now ... nominating appointees WITHOUT due process????
WTF ... Why didn't Democrats though of something like this??? They are always playing by the rules only to get knocked down and swept over their feet by the "unorthodox methods" that republicans use ...
I think it might be the time that Dems snap out of this " hypnosis" that republicans put us all under !!
Really!
And the Democrats' unwillingness or inability to fight back & bring these lawbreakers to justice.
Have you actually listened to RFK JR and Cally and Casey Means? You should listen to their podcasts and research their views and issues. They talk about all the chemicals and poisons that have been added to our foods to make them more addictive. That's just a small piece. The platform is about getting Americans healthy again. How is that bad?
But, that's not the whole story is it Josh?
Maybe if he were to be over one arm of the agency. It's the vaccine issues that concern me most.
J &J, Pfizer, Merck, Bristol-Myers will just stop making drugs? Take a minute and consider the fight around a proposal like that.
You don't give the CF enough credit... he hires the guy who says he wants to shut down big pharma... wipes his hands, "Whew, that's done. Another fire lit, burning health down. I'm such a genius."
True. They make too much profit to give up. Sick people is big business, especially if you can make them so without them realising.
That worm did a lot of damage!
Meds are cheaper overseas.
Heather, I share your concerns, however, becoming fearful will not solve our problems. We must start having more direct, in-person dialogue with folks we encounter and ask key questions: Why do you think a situation is so? What do you wish to see happen? How is this impacting your life? Dialogue can actually lead to friendship and consensus! We must never think we have a monoply on truth. Don't let today's events control your emotions. Take care--life is brief!
I think you are severely underestimating what is going on here
I know how bad it is.
But resistance must be clever. That is the task ahead!
I can agree with that
I hope. But for the most part, like arguing with a drunk. Or a cult member. Sadly
The essential need is to talk with others and strengthen community feeling.
Do not be isolate. Reach out to kindred spirits.
Too late for dialogue.
It's never too late for discussion! What's your option?
Thanks, I'll order one now. Perhaps I'll design one (I'm female) that says: THIS MORNING I WAS BENJAMIN, THEN I WENT TO SCHOOL AND NOW LOOK.
that is really funny!
I want one too!
Well said and very well written.
Don Jr. said his dad wants to fill the Cabinet with people “dumber than him” - his words.
so it really is all about ego....ffs, that guy is the biggest whiney baby pissy pants! "They don't worship me, so Imma, gonna end 'em!" smh....
Putins puppet.
Won't that tee just make it easier to round you up for re-education?
better buy a weapon
I love it Heather. We can't sit back and fear. We must turn fear into taking back our power. I know many people out there who side with us. You go girl!!!!!
Call or write your senators, especially if they are red. We all here agree with you that his nominations are FUBAR. Let them know that these nominations are not okay.
"If you see something, say something. I see something.
As i write this, Nov 15th, every Trump nominee is highly unqualified and a danger to carrying out the responsibiliites of the position for which they are nominted.
Only you and your fellow Republicans can stop this madness by rejecting the nominees confirmation."
I really don't see the benefit in trying to convince Ron Johnson.... but I'll try...
Republicans WILL go along with these nominations. It is useless trying to find anyone sane in their party anymore. Enemy within t-shirts will not be enough to stop the madness. Get ready to MAKE good trouble.
Yes we are screwed for sure. Time to either go to Canada or do away with myself. There will be no presidential election in 4 years. He Will do away with anything to do with environmental protection or worker protections. Next unions will be eliminated. Vacinations will be eliminated entirely by crackpot wacko RFK junior. All forms of government sponsored healthcare will be eliminated and social security will be attacked and destroyed. It will be eliminated for those already on it and many of those already retired will be left destitute. MAGA wackos will cackle and scream for the persecution and prosecution of Democrats who are ALL communists according to Trump confidant Elon Musk. There is no going back. We are truly finished. The US will turn into a 4th rate banana republic and we will be the laughing stock of the remaining free world. The end!!
The US is the laughing stock of the free world and has been under Joe Biden for some time. If you go to Canada there is MAiD but that is just mad.
Alternatively keep taking the vaccines, they may do the trick. But that is just as mad.
"Republicans who go along with these nominations are insane." Well thanks to Free Speech, you can say this but that doesn't make it true. The sentence is only nine words cast into a soup of quadrillions. Hope my old shirt fits.
Saying “America is screwed”, is not inspiring.
Better to stick our head in the sand?
We are not insane. Do you understand what being shrewd is?
I want one!
This is part of a war against government, that began with that demented horse's ass Ronald Reagan. If government screws up, then any government must be bad, right? It's a pattern.
Why are Republicans so opposed to government? Simple, government collects taxes. Why did Adam Smith (in case you don't remember, he was the inventor of capitalism) so in favor of taxes? Because taxes would prevent people like Elon Musk from becoming so powerful that they would buy the government and distort the market.
Welcome to the new world of Socialism for the Rich, for what else is not paying your taxes than government welfare for the Rich?
Elon Musk is a Welfare Queen. Let him freeze his balls on Mars.
He can go there and drink chloraquinn, or some such right-wing concoction, while he texts to X about his new department:
The Department for Employment of Corruption And Dirty Evil Tricks . . .DECADENCE
After he buys CNN (??!!) will he go after Boeing?
Miriam - with his record on tesla quality, i wouldn't want to fly in boeing planes. actually, i don't now either.
Make him get a vasectomy so he can stop having children. His oldest is a trans and he doesn't have a relation with her.
I don't remember Ronnie being this awful or dumb!!! Yes, tax the super wealth at the same % I pay. In fact everyone should pay the same % to be fair, and equal.
Allow me to assist: Reagan is “the government IS the problem” guy. He’s the guy who set the wheels in motion to create the plutocracy that we live in now and laid the groundwork for Trump’s plan to destroy the administrative state. Does that help a little?
I agree, Reagan also deregulated corporations which started their exodus to China and tens of thousands of our factories closed. Reagan also led to the Bush dynasty which led to Iraq.... it goes on and on and here we are.
And yet people have put Reagan on a pedestal it seems. Besides the Iran-Contra affair, he was responsible for keeping the hostages imprisoned until AFTER he was elected president to ensure Carter, who actually engineered their release, would not get credit so HE could win the election. He really wasn’t that nice, was he?
On that hostages' issue, a Team (kinda Seal Six) was sent to Tehran to free the hostages. A bit risky, but at the times, the place was run by the students. The helicopters they used "crashed" in the desert "due to the sand." Imagine that mission being successful. We might have no Reagan. My take is that they self-sabotaged.
Reagan is what happens when 1/3 of the population shifts their vote from Blue to Red, in racist protest after Civil Rights. When the dust settles in 2028, when we reach the terminus of all that Southern rage, we may want to rethink the Constitution.
Penny, the flat tax is just bullshit. People need to pay a progressive tax. The more you make, the higher the PERCENTAGE tax you pay. Otherwise, everyone would pay what the poorest pay, i.e., 5-10%, and the country would collapse. But don't take my word for it, read Adam Smith and Thomas Piketty (you can skip Karl Marx).
Oh, and by the way, Ronnie was just awful.
My sister lived in Santa Barbara and they would go to his ranch. Took the whole police force to get them in place. Also I thought he was sick alot and Nancy was making his decisions. At least that was expressed by some.
Definitely- there was a famous clip on the news where they turned the mic volume up and you could hear Nancy feeding him his lines one at a time. Reagan was in the pockets of the banks from the start (just ask Michael Moore). But his dementia became a massive issue and he tried to cover it up with his good ol’ boy schtick.
Trump is sick. He has dementia.
Penny Paul: Reagan had Alzheimers eventually.
I was just throwing an idea out there. another thing that could equalize is taking away the deductions. I am sure the super wealth have more.
No, to be fair taxes should harm less those with fewer assets. If a person making $20/hour is taxed at 50%, it will harm their ability to support a family. That same 50% tax rate for a person making ten million per year looks unfair on the surface, but having $five million left over to cover family expenses is a lot better than having $20k left over.
Please re analyze your memory and put in place what’s since. Plain as day.
Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Melvin Laird, Ed Meese, John Mitchell, Spiro Agnew. These new appointees will fit right in.
Actually, these new appointees are many orders of magnitude worse. At least the ones you mention were living more-or-less in reality.
You're right about that. We are truly in the upside-down when Richard Nixon looks good.
Not good, just able to be dealt with.
Had to chuckle involuntarily reading this as the last statement was placed so very well correctly. Would be funny if not so sadly true.
"Creatures and Characters", indeed.
If you look at the top photo in my latest Creatures and Characters post, you will see that it's appropriate. (This is not a plug for my Substack. I have 19 followers and will probably never have many more than that.)
the highland cow is adorable!
Thank you. I was referring people to the vampires but I'm glad you like it!
They look like stellar geniuses compared to trump’s clown car of nominees.
Well, most of these guys are dead except Cheney? Message?
I was responding to the person who said Republicans have a ling tradition of putting people in charge who will do the most damage.
And they DO, but mostly in the past, they wanted to make sure they could loot the economy, not crash and burn the whole thing. These bozos are just NUTS. Not even in the same league …
Egad. Scary damned dudes.
You're right, Pat. It beggars belief.
A pessismistic view is that these nominations reflect the desires of a cruel sadistic man who wishes to hurt as many people as he can. To divide and play the nation's people against one another.
A more optimistic view is these choices reflect an utterly clueless and perhaps dementia addled man when it comes to understanding the qualifications needed for these positions.
Regardless, the impacts are likely to be much the same.
and Cheney, with the other Neo-cons, now flocking behind democrats....
WTF is it with the Re-thug-licans? What kind of mental aberration drives them to want to lord it over our welfare and do us harm? Is malignant narcistic behavior part of their vetting process? I believe everyone subscribing to their madness needs to be assessed and placed under rigorous therapy.
I will bet you some people are already experiencing buyers remorse by voting for Trump. I know of one who is taken aback by the nominations who voted for crooked Donald.
Would rigorus therapy work?
Yes, Reagan told everyone the gov't was the problem then got elected to break it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9JArvEJ64M
“All the rainbows in the sky,
start to weep and say goodbye.
You won’t be seeing rainbows anymore.”
Interim appointments.
Nothing new, except getting even worse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9JArvEJ64M
Also watch todays interview with Rachel Maddow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9JArvEJ64M
the good die young.
I'm a fan of Roy, My favorite is he and KD Lang singing Crying.
🎯👍